2010 Kids' Choice Awards

Presenters and performers, and stunts

Host

• Kevin James

Presenters

The list of presenters and performers for the ceremony were announced on March 24, 2010.

• Tyra Banks
• Big Time Rush
• John Cena
• Jackie Chan
• Lily Collins
• Miranda Cosgrove
• Rosario Dawson
• Robert Downey Jr.
• Lucas Cruikshank
• Jonah Hill
• Victoria Justice
• Nathan Kress
• George Lopez
• Jennette McCurdy
• Lea Michele
• Cory Monteith
• Keke Palmer
• Dev Patel
• Katy Perry
• Chris Rock
• Zoe Saldaña
• Jaden Smith
• David Spade
• Shaun White

Note: In addition, promos aired prior to the telecast also announced that Queen Latifah was supposed to be a presenter at the awards, but she did not appear. Also, though Jerry Trainor, Victoria Justice, Nathan Kress, Jennette McCurdy, David Spade, Dev Patel, and Lucas Cruikshank did appear on the telecast as presenters, their appearances were not advertised in award show promos prior to the telecast.

Musical performers

The performers for the ceremony were announced on February 24, 2010.

• Miranda Cosgrove - "Kissin U" (Pre-show)
• Rihanna - "Hard"/"Rude Boy"/"Don't Stop the Music" (Main program)
• Justin Bieber- "Baby" (Main program)

Slime stunts

• Apolo Anton Ohno – catapulted into slime by a "slime slingshot"

Special guest appearance

• Adam Sandler
• Jerry Trainor
• Jackson Rathbone
• Nicola Peltz
• Steve Carell
• Tina Fey

Nicktoon appearances

• Poof and Foop of The Fairly OddParents
• Fanboy & Chum Chum
• The Penguins of Madagascar

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first, in bold. Other nominees are in alphabetical order.

Movies

Television

Music

Sports

Miscellaneous

Events within the show

Kids' Choice Ultimate Dance Smackdown

The show also featured the "Kids' Choice Ultimate Dance Smackdown," hosted by iCarly co-stars Jennette McCurdy and Nathan Kress. It featured Nickelodeon live-action stars alongside characters from the Nicktoon series The Penguins of Madagascar, Fanboy & Chum Chum and The Fairly OddParents split amongst three teams with each team performing a different style of dance.

Robbie Amell from True Jackson, VP, Ariana Grande from Victorious, Gage Golightly from The Troop and The Penguins of Madagascar performed a Bollywood routine; Leon Thomas from Victorious, Nick Purcell from The Troop, Ashley Argota from True Jackson, VP and Poof and Foop of The Fairly OddParents performed a disco routine; and Matt Shively from True Jackson, VP, Noah Munck from iCarly and the title characters of Fanboy & Chum Chum performed a hip-hop routine.

Viewers could vote for the winner of the battle at Nick.com during the show. The hip-hop competitors, consisting of Munck, Shively and the title characters of Fanboy & Chum Chum, were voted winners of the battle.

Slime stunts

Two slime stunts were featured in the 2010 awards: the first involved gold-medalist Olympic speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno in a stunt in which he would be catapulted into slime by a "slime slingshot" in a "slime world record" attempt (the "launch" segment was actually pre-taped in advance of the show with Ohno's "catapulting" into the air digitally inserted); the second slime stunt involved actress Nicola Peltz, who co-stars in the then-upcoming feature film The Last Airbender making an attempt to bend slime (Peltz plays Katara, who has the ability to bend water.)

Mystery slimed celebrities

The Last Airbender co-star Jackson Rathbone, iCarly co-star Jerry Trainor, Katy Perry, online celebrity Fred Figglehorn (played by Lucas Cruikshank, who announced during commercial breaks the awards whose categories could not make it into the main show due to time constraints), Tina Fey, Steve Carell, and show host Kevin James were all slimed during the awards show.

Trainor and Rathbone were slimed during the slimebending stunt by a slime geyser (the podium where presenters and winners appear featured a pool of slime in front of the podium, directly surrounding it, thus also allowing those in the audience directly in front of that area of the stage to be slimed as well when the slime geyser is activated), Perry was slimed while introducing the "Favorite Movie Actress" award in which Miley Cyrus won (Perry was slimed while opening a box thought to contain a card announcing the winner; the force of the slime sprayed from the box caused Perry to lose balance and fall on the stage briefly), and Fey and Carell were also slimed by a slime geyser from the slime area directly surrounding the podium (though they appeared onstage, Fey and Carell did not introduce or present an award); Cruikshank (as his persona from his YouTube video series) slimed himself during one of the commercial break segments.

KCA host James, who was standing onstage with the children who handed out the awards to the winners appearing on the show, was slimed along with the children onstage near the end of the telecast after completing a running gag within the telecast in which James attempted to become a "beyond awesome" host by doing things to get in the audience's favor, with special guest Adam Sandler appearing on the videoscreens directly above the stage during the final sliming of the telecast.

References

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